Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We're passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we're excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things
v0.9.18 Release
iOS:
Android:
- GitHub
- Play Store
- F-Droid is coming
- If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium
Changelog
- Fixed issue where "Everything -> Subscribed" feed showed no posts
- Added better compact view
- Added Post Customization page in settings with live preview
- Added ability to customize font size
- Added ability to quickly toggle between card and compact view
- Fixed mark as read not working, added mark all as read
- Fixed issue with comment share link not being generated properly
- Added Gesture Navigation (Thanks shocklateboy92!)
- Added TOTP Login support (Thanks swmarks!)
- Added animation configuration (Thanks johnc86!)
Known Issues (In progress)
There are a few bugs still that we're working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we're working on:
- User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
- Separate default comment sort from default post sort
- New sort in community page's posts sometimes not working properly
- Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
- Check here for a full list
Screenshots
I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world. I'm easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder. What do I need to do differently? "This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there."
Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can't interact with any other federation.
If you're using the everything view from the home feed then you're going to get posts that you might not be federated with, an aggregate of any instances you've added to the app.
We're working through tweaking this view and making it smarter to be able to support that interaction. Also I'm not sure thunder actually can do that because im thunder you're seeing comments/posts that are "outside" of lemmy.world but you're accessing them through lemmy.worlds federation.
Long story short if you want it to work like thunder, just use the Lemmy.world -> all feed on the home tab and you'll still see those posts that are "outside" you'll just be seeing them through Lemmy.worlds federation
Thanks for explaining that! For some reason this didn't click for me.
I think it would help a lot if it defaulted to [email protected] as calling it "All" which is the same as it's called on any lemmy instance when logged in is super confusing. They are not the same thing.
Perhaps rename Liftoff's All to "All@notloggedin" or non-interactive. It's not intuitive and didn't make sense in the app settings either; I had to read your explanation here to understand.
Otherwise, Liftoff is great. Thank you for working on it.